"Bangalore people are so cultured people they will never tolerate any
indignity, harassment or assault on women. Even without police and without
government, the dignity of women in Bangalore city is perfectly safe and
protected,"

WRONG, Mr. Bidari, Bengaluru is not safe......
INDIA is not safe for women. I can narrate my experiences too
BUT do you even want to listen to women like Archana and others who were
attacked ?!

Join us :

Women in Bangalore are facing serious violence and attacks - for wearing jeans,
going out in the streets, fighting back the moral police etc and we need to
stop these attacks. This is a letter to the police commissioner/home
minister/press release regarding the recent attacks on women in
bangalore,

FRI, Mar06 :
Please come to ALF [Phone : 080-2286 5757] on Friday anytime between 2-6pm to
make posters for the protest at the DGP'S office on saturday.. Charts and
colours will be provided but feel free to bring your own and you can bring
money you would like to contribute. Alternative Law Forum, 122/4 Infantry Road,
(opposite Infantry Wedding House), Bangalore 560001, (nearest bus stop-
Shivajinagar Depot)

SAT, March07:
1. Gather at Nrupathunga Road at 15:30. (Parking available at YMCA, DG's
office compound, etc.) Stand on either side of the road, outside DG-IG's
office, holding placards, silently.
2. Either the DG-IG comes out at 16:30 collects the memorandum and addresses
the audience, or a small representative group goes in to his office when called
and present the memorandum.
3. If the latter, then the representatives will address the gathering, when
they come out.
4. Gathering shall disperse at 17:30.

SUN, March08:
0. On Sunday 2009March08, International Women's Day,members of the group and
other citizens will walk down various prominent roads of the city. Its called
"Take Back the Night Walk" and is
being held by women to reclaim our lawful right to be safe at night across
India. It starts at Indiranagar, Ulsoor and the other two places where the
women were attacked
1. At 18:00, people will gather at the five locations as designated by the area
coordinators. They will interact with the audience (in as many languages
as possible), and spread awareness about the various goals of the Fearless
Karnataka campaign. This will involve spreading of information flyers
and testimonials, conducting bystander polls, and other such forms of
interaction with the people on the streets. This can go on till 20:00.
(Volunteers for poster-sticking will do so around this time.)
2. At 21:00, people gather at the designated spot in Majestic, bringing along
with them necessities such as food, water, and community spirit. There
will be further performances, video projections (if possible), songs, and other
such activities there.
3. This will go on till 23:00, when people will disperse in their vehicles
(pooling as much as possible), in public transport, tempos (which are currently
being investigated), etc.

Every Indian woman experiences this boorishness let alone
foreigners or tourists who visit our country. So if you are a foreigner/NRI
please think twice before
bringing your daughters to India for a visit. The women in your life dont
deserve the trauma that most Indian
women experience daily.
Lets admit it, many people (dont blame just the media) derive pleasure from
others misery and women are the easiest prey, atleast physically. So while men
will worship the mother
goddess, they will not hesitate to molest
the same female form in public. That is the most common tactic used to
subjugate women and it works everytime. How dare women ask men to be more
humane and stop being a chauvinistic pig..... dont women realise that men are
the torch-bearers of the lineage. Its another matter that the woman takes the
burden of making the next lineage a reality. For most men its their birthright
to leer at women, stalk them, sing raunchy Hindi movie songs, stare/ogle at
fully clothed women of any age, threaten her for refusing a man's advances.
Ofcourse the educated Indian male is cultured enough to never threaten or abuse
openly. He uses veiled and subtle terror tactics like showing a newspaper
clipping of a woman on whom acid was thrown (by a suitor whom she had refused
to marry). In the higher elcheons of power this will take a completely
different turn, akin to the glass ceiling syndrome. But let's not go there.

For many the ultimate ego breaker is a woman not listening to a man and
making her own decisions, which is equivalent to a western woman, generally
deriled and regarded as too liberal, lacks morals, and unfeminine (dont get me
started on the hypocrisy). By popular count, the Indian definition for feminity
is : Men come first, second, third and women dont figure in the scheme of
things. So dont protest and learn to live with zero respect. Ofcourse some
educated women will protest that its not true and that they get a lot of
respect in their family/personal life. Ahem, who makes the financial decisions
with the money you earn? Its a rare "I do" that you will hear. I digress.

Lets stick to women and public spaces... the short of it is : Indian women
have learnt to live with boorish male behaviour like the recent Mumbai, Pune or
Bihar incidents. Although crimes against women happen all across the world, can
you imagine such a public crime in any developed nation?. The difference lies
in the fact that its easier to get justice in say NAmerica or EU or AUS unlike
in India. Here the onus lies on the woman to prove her innocence. Even with all
this evidence, this crime will go unpunished, and there are enough people to
protect criminals. Thanks to police apathy, lax laws, zero support from other
women, lack of support groups or sometimes lack of support even from their own
family (most women will be asked to get on with life than waste time fighting
crimes like these). Since women cant expect the state to protect them,
martial-arts training should be compulsary in every school for every girl child
and women should legally be allowed to carry the kirpan (a knife) like Sikh men
do. That is the only way women can stop depending on the state or others to
protect them from a mob of 50 -men- criminals.